Green Chemistry, Energy and Catalysis

 

Heather Andreas
Professor, Chemistry

Physical chemistry; Analytical chemistry; Energy; Electrochemistry; Energy storage; Supercapacitors; Biosensors
Saurabh S. Chitnis
Associate Professor, Chemistry

Inorganic chemistry; Main group catalysis; Hydrometallation; Inorganic polymers
Mita Dasog
Assistant Professor, Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Chair, Chemistry

Nanomaterials; Solar energy; Catalysis; Optoelectronics; Inorganic chemistry; Materials synthesis; Solid-state chemistry
Michael Freund
Professor, Chemistry
Harry Shirreff Chair of Chemical Research
Director, CTRI

Electrochemistry; Conjugated polymers; Solar fuels; Artificial photosynthesis; Organic electronics; Machine olfaction; Surface science
Kimberley Hall
Professor, Physics and Atmospheric Science

Charge and spin dynamics in perovskite photovoltaic materials; Electron spin relaxation in III-V semiconductors; Many-body phenomena in semiconductor materials; Solid state quantum information using semiconductor quantum dots; Ultrafast dynamics and quantum control in semiconductors; Photophysical properties of diluted magnetic semiconductors; Photonic and spintronics devices
Ian Hill
Professor, Physics and Atmospheric Science

Interface engineering; Organic electronics, Organic solar cells; Perovskite solar cells; Photoelectron spectroscopies; Printable electronics; Thin-film transistors; Surface and interface physics
Erin Johnson
Professor, Chemistry
Herzberg-Becke Chair in Theoretical Chemistry

Theoretical chemistry; Computational chemistry; Quantum chemistry; Density functional theory; Intermolecular interactions; Physical chemistry; Materials
Ghada Koleilat
Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Nanomaterials for energy conversion and sensing

Ryan MacDonell
Assistant Professor, Chemistry

Theoretical study of photochemistry; Internal conversion and nonadiabtic dynamics

Alex Speed
Associate Professor, Chemistry

Organic chemistry; Main Group chemistry; Asymmetric catalysis; Atom transfer; Electron transfer; Photochemistry; Sulfur hexafluoride activation
Mark Stradiotto

Arthur B. McDonald Research Chair & Alexander McLeod Professor of Chemistry

Inorganic chemistry; Organometallic chemistry; Organic chemistry; Green Chemistry and sustainability; Catalysis; Synthesis; Ligand design; Cross-coupling
Alison Thompson
Professor, Chemistry
Canada Research Chair in Pyrrole Chemistry for Energy and Molecular Biology
 
Synthetic chemistry; Conjugated molecular systems; (photo)physical properties; (photo)chemical probes
Laura Turculet
Professor, Chemistry

Organometallic chemistry; Transition metals; Organosilicon chemistry; Sustainability in chemical synthesis; Homogeneous catalysis; Hydrofunctionalization; Inorganic chemistry
Penghao Xiao
Assistant Professor, Physics and Atmospheric Science

Long-time scale dynamics; Density functional theory; Li/Na-ion battery materials; Electrochemical catalysis; Alloy oxidation/corrosion
Peng Zhang
Professor, Chemistry

Synchrotron X-ray spectroscopy; Nanoparticles; Catalysis; Biomedicine; Nanotechnology; Materials